Hi, I was asking whether it is possible to use GLib 2.20 or 2.22 to build Tracker 0.10+ instead of Glib 2.28+ to build
The problem is that glib upgrade is not that easy. There are some closed source packages which segfault with glib 2.29 for example. Regards, -- Marcin 2013/1/29 Philip Van Hoof <phi...@codeminded.be> > Hi Marcin, > > I'm assuming you meant to ask whether it is possible to use GLib 2.20 or > 2.22 to build Tracker 0.10 instead of Tracker 2.20/2.22 to build. > > If the configure.ac script requests a specific version, then that > version is the oldest version that you can use. > > Up until last year was Tracker using a lot of very recent additions and > improvements to GLib. Using a lower version than the one requested by > configure.ac will therefor not work (not without patching and working > around not having the feature for which the version in configure.ac got > bumped - which the team generally doesn't / didn't do without reason). > > For most systems an upgrade of GLib should not be any problem. GLib is > maintained rigidly and upgrades of GLib are generally considered safe. > > Kind regards, > > Philip > > On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:55 +0100, Marcin Mielniczuk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > Is it possible to use tracker 2.20 (or 2.22) to build tracker 0.10 or > > newer? > > > > > > Regards, > > -- > > Marcin > > _______________________________________________ > > tracker-list mailing list > > tracker-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list > > -- > Philip Van Hoof > Software developer > Codeminded BVBA - http://codeminded.be > >
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